but it is horizontal

went to a michael w. smith concert a while ago, and he said something about God not only loving us, but also liking us.
And why he said that, is because it is even more intimate. it just is more. You can decide to love. love is a decision, as they say. (and "they" are right, btw) But you can´t really decide to like someone. You just do or you don´t. at least that´s how i see it. And actually, that is why i told my wife in the speech i made at our wedding (as i recall, i mean it was like 3 yrs ago.. :) that not only i love Her, but i also like her very very much. Because.. it just is more. you can love without really liking someone. But that is not what God does. He really likes us. As we are. with all our mistakes and glories.

The other day. i had a conversation with one of my house mates, and somewhere in the middle of that, he just stated that the problem with his faith isn´t that he didn´t know God loves him. But. He just can´t feel it.

and.

in that split second, without really thinkin about it, it became clear to me. The way i feel God´s love. And. It is not vertical, but it is horizontal.

It is the love i get from my family, from my loved ones, from my friends, from other christians.
That, is the the love i feel comes from God. The way God loves me.

and.

if someone can´t feel it. It only means we have failed. We, as the people around that person. Because that is how God has ment it to be. For us to be the tools. the hands. to share the love He´s got for us. To show it. to live it. To be it.

and.

If God is love. As the bible tells us. So, basically doesn´t that mean all the love is God´s love. That, in some way, all the love is God. Or God is in all the love. when we are loving our neighbour as ourselves - God is loving our neighbours. God is loving us. And when that happens, we sure can feel that in our everyday life. God´s love is not (only) vertical, but it is horizontal.